Evening Press Reader's Letter

I have followed with interest the flurry of correspondence regarding "going green" and the associated re-cycling facilities in York or lack of them.

Rather than making endless (and polluting) car journeys to recycling banks, another option is to cut down the amount of rubbish your house generates. Paper recycling is of dubious benefit anyhow as it takes several polluting processes to get it back into usable form.

When I put my bin out after the mid-winter orgy (I think it's called Christmas), it was only three quarters full. Everyone else's bin was full to bursting and overflowing with all kinds of useless seasonal tat.

Our bins are emptied weekly and mine is rarely more than half full and that's on a bad week. My family size? Three adults. How do I do it? It's not difficult, use some common sense and purchase for need and not for greed. Result: significantly less rubbish and with careful shopping most of it's bio-degradable.

Graham Horne,

Beech Avenue,

Bishopthorpe,

York.

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